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| Albee, Edward (1928- ) |
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American playwright, most famous for his 1962 play Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, made into an Oscar-winning film in 1966. A fine signature, obtained in person, on a 6" x 4" white card. View Details |
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£10.00 |
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| Ambler, Eric (1909-1998) |
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Great British writer, one of the fathers of the spy story. A fine signature in black ink on a 5" x 3" white card. The signature was obtained "in person". View Details |
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£15.00 |
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| Amis, Martin (1949- ) |
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British novelist and literary editor, son of writer Kingsley Amis; regarded as one of the most influential and innovative voices in contemporary fiction. A fine signature, obtained in person, in black ink on a white 6" x 4" card. View Details |
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| Bagnold, Enid (1889-1981) |
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English novelist and playwright, most famous for her 1935 book, National Velvet. A fine ink signature and date (1953) on a cream 3.5" x 2,25" card. View Details |
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£12.00 |
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| Balchin, Nigel (1908-1970) |
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British author and screenwriter, most famous for his 1943 book, The Small Back Room, which added two phrases, "boffin" and "backroom boy" to common English parlance. A fine signed and inscribed cream-coloured card (approximately 4.5" x 3.5"), dated 1948 by Balchin. View Details |
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£18.00 |
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| Baldwin, James (1924-1987) |
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Great American writer. A fine signature in black ink on a 4.25" x 3.25" white card. The signature was obtained IN PERSON on September 21st 1986. View Details |
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£25.00 |
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| Barrie, J.M. (1860-1936) |
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Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered for his creation of the immortal Peter Pan in 1901. A very fine 3-page handwritten letter on Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, W. headed paper (22 Oct 1906) to a Mrs Pogson in which Barrie discusses the performing rights to two of his plays, The Little Minister and The Professor's Love Story. The letter gives us some idea of the state of confusion in Barrie's affairs after the suicide of his agent and good friend, Addison Bright, in May of that year. View Details |
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£250.00 |
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| Bolt, Robert (1924-1995) |
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Outstanding Oscar-winning British playwright who turned to screenwriting; married the actress Sarah Miles twice (1967-1976 and in 1988).
A fine typed letter (Park Gates, Richmond Green, Surrey), from the heyday of his fame (22nd January 1963) and boldly signed in black ink at its conclusion. RARE.
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£25.00 |
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| Bolt, Robert (1924-1995) |
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Outstanding
Oscar-winning British playwright who turned to screenwriting; married
the actress Sarah Miles twice (1967-1976 and in 1988).
A fine signature (R.Bolt) in blue ink on a 5" x 3" white card (the signature was obtained in person on the 4th June 1989). View Details |
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£15.00 |
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| Bradbury, Malcolm (1932-2000) |
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British author and teacher. An extraordinary strip of 6 signed address labels, obviously intended to be used by a fan for attaching to the title pages of Bradbury books. View Details |
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| Brand, Christianna (1907-1988) |
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Malaya-born writer generally regarded as the best of the post-classic detective writers, author of Green for Danger, her most famous novel and considered by many to be her masterpiece. Two interesting letters with excellent content to a fan who appears to have lost his autograph collection in a flood. View Details |
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£30.00 |
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| Brazil, Angela (1868-1947) |
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British novelist, one of the first and most successful of writers of "modern schoolgirls' stories." A fine signature in blue fountain pen ink on a slip of paper (approximately 3.5" x 2.25") which has been attached (probably by Brazil herself) to a larger slip of paper with an address blindstamp, The Quadrant, Coventry, at its head. Brazil has also added the word "with kind wishes" in ink above her signature. View Details |
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£50.00 |
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| Charteris, Leslie (1907-1993) |
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Singapore-born novelist and screenwriter, best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". An interesting typed and signed letter (2 August 1938), to an actress who wants to use as her stage name that of one of his regular characters. View Details |
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£75.00 |
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| de la Roche, Mazo (1979-1961) |
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Canadian writer, most famous for her Jalna series of novels, beginning in 1927. A fine signature in black ink on a 3" x 2" slip of paper, neatly laid to black card. View Details |
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| Forsyth, Frederick (1938- ) |
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British novelist, author of adventure thrillers. A unique candid 8" x 6" colour photograph of Forsyth, signed at a later date (the collector's note to the reverse suggests this was in 1994). There's a bold signature in black ink across the image. View Details |
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£15.00 |
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| Fry, Christopher (1907-2005) |
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English playwright, one of the most celebrated of the mid-20th century, regarded as the Shakespeare of his time for his poetry and wit. A fine vintage magazine photograph, very neatly mounted in period to a white postcard, clearly signed in black ink across the image. View Details |
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| Heginbotham, Sarah Maria (A.A.Milne) (1840-1921) |
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Mother of author A.A.Milne. A very rare survival, a handwritten letter on three pages (Shallcross Cottage, November 30th). There is no year on the letter but a contemporary note in pencil dates it to 1876 (perhaps from an envelope which is no longer present), or two years before her marriage to A.A.Milne's father, John.The letter content indicates that at that time Sarah was running a school with her mother and her sister. View Details |
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£65.00 |
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| Herbert, A.P. (1890-1971) |
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English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist, best known for his 1930 novel, The Water Gipsies. A fine typed and signed letter (12 Hammersmith Terrace, W6, 28th September, 1954) to the actor Tristram Jellinek, who is organising a revue to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the founding of RADA. View Details |
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£10.00 |
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| Herriot, James (1916-1995) |
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Best selling English author. A fine signed and inscribed 5.5" x 3.5" white card. View Details |
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£15.00 |
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| Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963) |
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Great English writer, most famous for his 1932 novel, Brave New World, a dark dystopian vision of the future. A fine letter, handwritten and signed in black ink, on a sheet of headed hotel paper (The Shoreham, 33 West 55, New York 19, N.Y., Oct 15th 1957), sending an autograph to a fan. View Details |
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£125.00 |
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